Dust-free construction
After traveling for a long time, the Three-Wheeler slowly came to a stop next to the Old Camp.
"..."
Chen Fan gazed at the corpses of the Strange Entities scattered throughout the Camp area, his expression complex as he remained silent for a long time. This familiar Camp held many of his emotions.
Last night.
The Old Camp was attacked by Strange Entities.
There weren't many of them, only thirty or forty, all of them Monkey-Head Entity, and they didn't cause any damage to the Camp.
His main purpose for this trip was to "pave the way".
He didn't need to come to the Old Camp. He had already laid a 10,000-meter road with Copper Pipe when he left yesterday. He only needed to continue laying the road along yesterday's path. But since it was the first day he left the Old Camp, he still wanted to come and take a look.
"Just take the Eerie Stone."
He glanced at the Crippled Monkey who was untying the ropes to move the corpse, and shook his head. "Just came to take a look. Once the Heavenly Road, we can set up the 'Clearwind Formation,' which will make travel much faster. Then we can have Zhou Mo and the others transport the corpse back to the Rear Base."
They didn't have Handcart, so they couldn't take the bodies away. Even if they did, it would slow them down.
The Clearwind Formation is an Exotic Treasure obtained by killing the Funeral Wraith Chief.
When placed inside Eerie Fire, it creates a layer of Clearwind within the Camp area, slightly increasing movement speed.
Let's go.
We returned to the 10,000-meter interface that had been laid yesterday.
The Three-Wheeler slowly drove across the Wasteland.
Like a worker on an assembly line, Chen Fan installed Copper Pipe one by one underground in the Wasteland. It was not a technically demanding job, just a bit tiring, requiring him to mechanically repeat the same task over and over again.
Finally--
The Three-Wheeler slowly drove into the Canyon.
Copper Pipe were also laid through the Canyon to reach the Village.
Now, all that's needed is to build another Eerie Fire to connect the two Camp.
"Station Master."
Zhou Mo came running over, panting. "They've basically all been leveled. Are we going to set up New Camp here?"
"..."
Chen Fan stood on the ground, looking at the surrounding Village that had been razed to the ground, and shook his head. "No."
And the Level-3 Arrow Tower that was built on the Blockhouse last night was upgraded to Level-5 Cannon Tower in one go.
It consumed 400 Eerie Stone.
To upgrade to Level-5 Cannon Tower, the following two conditions must be met.
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"1: Consumes 300 Eerie Stone."
"2: Consume any one of the following: 1 Mourning Lantern, 1 Eerie Eye, 1 Octagonal Conch."
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There are 27 types in total.
Consuming any one of these, plus 300 Eerie Stone, will upgrade the Level-5 Cannon Tower.
He naturally chose Mourning Lantern.
After upgrading to Level-5 Cannon Tower.
Not many things have changed.
Like the Arrow Fort, it is a square Brown stone brick, one meter in length and width, with a "rectangular notch" on one side, which originally contained a Crossbow Mechanism that gleamed with a cold light.
But now it has turned into... a white Paper Lantern.
At least on the surface, it poses no threat whatsoever.
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"Upgrade the Arrow Tower to level 5, and it will become a 'Cannon Tower,' requiring it to be permanently placed in one location and cannot be moved freely. Its power will be increased."
Please select an upgrade direction.
1: Increased rate of fire.
2: Increased power.
3: Reduced energy consumption.
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He chose the second upgrade path, increasing its power; what he needed now was sufficient power.
He then tapped the back of the Cannon Tower lightly, revealing a groove in which ten Level-2 Eerie Stones were placed.
The next moment--
A white light flashed from the white lantern inside the gap.
"Boom!"
The moment the Cannon Tower was activated, a milky-white Golden Light Pillar, as thick as a forearm, shot out from the gap and struck the cliff facing the Canyon Passage directly, creating a huge sound and scattering stone dust into the air.
The Golden Light Pillar lasts for one second, during which it continuously explodes.
There will be a pause of a few seconds after each attack is launched.
Beams of white Golden Light Pillar crashed against the Cliff Face.
He wanted to carve a Cave inside the mountain to serve as his Rear Base.
After a cup of tea.
"..."
Chen Fan stood there expressionless.
The Level-5 Cannon Tower was more powerful than he had imagined; compared to the Level-4 Arrow Fortress, it was a qualitative leap.
But...
The mountain was harder than he had imagined; he even suspected it might be harder than Level-1 City Wall. It took him the time it takes to brew a cup of tea to blast a shallow crater into the Cliff Face.
It would take forever to dig a Cave like that.
"A firmer stance is better."
He didn't feel bad about it; a harder surface meant his natural Rear Base area would be safer, although it would be more difficult to clear land in the early stages.
The Cannon Tower cannot be moved or rearranged.
The Cannon Tower that was placed on the Blockhouse could only be placed here in the future, so he wouldn't build too many Cannon Tower to open up Cave, so as not to waste resources.
Another hour passed.
The relentless bombing never stopped.
The basic structure of the Cave has been created.
At his command, the Cannon Tower ceased attacking.
Zhou Mo and the others, holding tools, were quickly clearing away the rubble and debris in front of the nascent Cave.
The initial shape of Cave, five meters high, twenty meters wide, and three meters deep.
The next step is to build City Wall. Once the City Wall are built, Cannon Tower can be placed on City Wall to speed up the expansion while ensuring that the Cannon Tower are not wasted due to being immobile.
"..."
Chen Fan crushed the Eerie Stone in his hand.
A phantom of City Wall made of white lines appeared before him. He slowly moved the phantom of the City Wall, comparing it with the nascent Cave.
"Um?"
A hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.
Cannon Tower is not a precise construction tool, so it certainly couldn't carve out a perfect 20-meter-wide Cave prototype; there would definitely be errors, such as 19.6 meters or 20.7 meters.
His original plan was to eliminate these errors by using Cannon Tower repairs.
Unexpected.
The City Wall can blend perfectly with the mountain.
Judging from the shadowy image of the City Wall, the Cave he created was 20.4 meters wide, but he didn't need to widen the entrance to 21 meters; the extra 0.4 meters of City Wall would automatically adapt to the mountain.
Of course, that 0.4-meter section of the City Wall still cost the same as the construction cost of a full meter of the City Wall.
That's fine too.
This saved him a lot of trouble.
Soon--
A 20-meter- City Wall was built at the entrance of the Cave, a near-perfect fit.
The next moment!
Ten level Level-5 Cannon Tower appeared in a row atop the City Wall.
Chen Fan glanced down at the Ghostlight Lantern in his arms, thought for a moment, and then put it back. It felt a bit wasteful to use these four free chances to upgrade Level-6 Cannon Tower.
Ten level Level-5 Cannon Tower slowly rotated, their rectangular notches pointing towards the interior of the Cave.
Under his orders.
The bombardment resumed.
"Boom boom boom..."
The sounds, like detonators exploding in a mine, echoed continuously within the Canyon, sending debris and dust falling from the cliffs and causing the ground to tremble slightly.
Large numbers of birds flew out of the woods on the mountain and roamed in the air.
There are quite a few birds here.
Moreover, due to the rain, there was very little dust, which could be considered a dust-free construction process in some respects.